{Your sanctification} (ho hagiasmos hum(936e)). Found only in
the Greek Bible and ecclesiastical writers from hagiaz(935c) and
both to take the place of the old words hagiz(932c) hagismos with
their technical ideas of consecration to a god or goddess that
did not include holiness in life. So Paul makes a sharp and
pointed stand here for the Christian idea of sanctification as
being "the will of God" (apposition) and as further explained by
the epexegetic infinitive {that ye abstain from fornication}
(apechesthai humas apo t(8873) porneias). Pagan religion did not
demand sexual purity of its devotees, the gods and goddesses
being grossly immoral. Priestesses were in the temples for the
service of the men who came.